Banking

Georgia Wilkins
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank chief executive Mike Hirst says fierce competition in the home loan market is creating a ''race to the bottom'', with banks continuing to take on greater risk to entice...

Clancy Yeates
Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly has sought to dampen concerns over an industry-wide decline in lending standards, citing further falls in bad loans and saying households continued to aggressively...

Banking

Georgia Wilkins
Bank of Queensland boss Stuart Grimshaw says the government should address the regulatory ''imbalances'' that exist between the big banks and smaller lenders by allowing regional banks to take on...